Nathaniel Rich

Losing Earth (eBook, ePUB)

A Recent History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Vanity Fair Best Book of the Year: "Gripping... revelatory... Climate change is a tragedy, but Rich makes clear that it is also a crime." - The New York Times Book Review Finalist, PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change-including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon sparking coverage and conversations around the world. Emphasizing the lives of those who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight. Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry's coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation, propaganda, and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. Like John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth, Losing Earth is that rare achievement: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward. "Absorbing... a well-told tale." - Newsday "How to explain the mess we're in? Nathaniel Rich recounts how a crucial decade was squandered... an important contribution to the record of our heedless age." -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374721138
• Artikelnr.: 56157436

Autorenporträt

Nathaniel Rich

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: Introduction Unit
ii: Part I: Shouts in the Street:1979
1982 Chapter
1: The Whole Banana: Spring 1979 Chapter
2: Mirror Worlds: Spring 1979 Chapter
3: Between Clambake and Chaos: July 1979 Chapter
4: Enter Cassandra, Raving: 1979
1980 Chapter
5: A Very Aggressive Defensive Program: 1979
1980 Chapter
6: Tiger on the Road: October 1980 Chapter
7: A Deluge Most Unnatural: November 1980
September 1981 Chapter
8: Heroes and Villains: March 1982 Chapter
9: The Direction of an Impending Catastrophe: 1982 Unit
iii: Part II: Bad Science Fiction: 1983
1988 Chapter
10: Caution Not Panic: 1983
1984 Chapter
11: The World of Action: 1985 Chapter
12: The Ozone in October: Fall 1985
Summer 1986 Chapter
13: Atmospheric Scientist, New York, N.Y.: Fall 1987
Spring 1988 Unit
iv: Part III: You Will See Things That You Shall Believe: 1988
1989 Chapter
14: Nothing but Bonfires: Summer 1988 Chapter
15: Signal Weather: June 1988 Chapter
16: Woodstock for Climate Change: June 1988
April 1989 Chapter
17: Fragmented World: Fall 1988 Chapter
18: The Great Includer and the Old Engineer: Spring 1989 Chapter
19: Natural Processes: May 1989 Chapter
20: The White House Effect: Fall 1989 Chapter
21: Skunks at the Garden Party: November 1989 Section
v: Afterword: Glass
Bottomed Boats Section
vi: A Note on the Sources Acknowledgements
vii: Acknowledgements

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[Rich's] gripping, depressing, revelatory book makes it clear that not only is climate change a tragedy,
but that it is also a crime - a thing that bad people knowingly made worse, for their personal gain.
John Lanchester New York Times